El problema de la modulación en Deleuze y Guattari: reorientar el Ritornello frente al zumbido

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2025.719

Palabras clave:

Atenuación, Música drone, zumbido, Pharmakon, situación farmacológica

Resumen

Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari sostienen que, si bien a veces es necesario dejarse llevar por expresiones más molares y estratificadas de la subjetividad, parte del arte de la filosofía consiste en extraer las intensidades que se esconden bajo las formas territorializadas de la existencia, y saber cómo hacerlo sin sucumbir a las líneas de la muerte y la destrucción. Estos modos de expresión menores requieren un tipo de lógica completamente diferente, una lógica del tartamudeo o del Y... Y... Y..., que ellos teorizan como paradigmático de un cromatismo generalizado, o la capacidad de establecer conexiones inmediatas entre elementos heterogéneos. Para Deleuze y Guattari, el sintetizador modular es un ejemplo especialmente bueno de cómo funciona esto en la práctica, aunque no queda claro exactamente cómo los sintetizadores modulares pueden enseñarnos a producir estribillos en la vida que proporcionen la consistencia suficiente para continuar experimentando. Centrándome en la acción de crear música drone y en el método de Deep Listening —una práctica sonora meditativa desarrollada por Pauline Oliveros—, abordo esta cuestión, así como la aporía de la modulación en la obra de Deleuze.

Biografía del autor/a

Chantelle Gray, University of Johannesburg

Chantelle Gray is a South African philosopher whose interests span critical algorithm studies; queer theory and gender studies; experimental and exploratory studies in music; anarchism and political theory; and Continental philosophy. The interdisciplinary nature of her work allows her to ask critical questions about how to take care of humans, technologies and ecologies in the digital age. She is the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures (2022), and the co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism (2019).

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2025-12-19